RE: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Krempasky, Mark wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 and have no issues with using multiple RAID groups with the Dell 2950 internal disks. Thanks, ~BAS -Original Message- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been patched to the point where it is relatively stable, we're nearing the point where we can finally put Dell PowerEdge 1950s/2950s into production. However the lack of a MFI CLI management utility is still a grave concern. Without it, there is no way to proactively monitor the RAID controller for failed components (aside from sitting there 24/7/365 and waiting for a blue light to go amber) ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 and have no issues with using multiple RAID groups with the Dell 2950 internal disks. -Original Message- From: Brian A. Seklecki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:59 AM To: ke han Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Krempasky, Mark; Erik Trulsson Subject: Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950 It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been patched to the point where it is relatively stable, we're nearing the point where we can finally put Dell PowerEdge 1950s/2950s into production. However the lack of a MFI CLI management utility is still a grave concern. Without it, there is no way to proactively monitor the RAID controller for failed components (aside from sitting there 24/7/365 and waiting for a blue light to go amber) ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
The DRAC cards do that, don't they? I dunno the SSH interface on the DRAC5's wont let us in. The SSH interface on the DRAC4 was useless, but it was the last version upon which Firefox could load the remote console interface via Java. Now they only support Firefox 1.0.5 plugins on RH7.1 :} ~BAS Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ ...from back in the heady days when helpdesk meant nothing, diskquota meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
--On Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:58:50 -0500 Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. Now that 6.2 release is imminent and bce(4) has been patched to the point where it is relatively stable, we're nearing the point where we can finally put Dell PowerEdge 1950s/2950s into production. However the lack of a MFI CLI management utility is still a grave concern. Without it, there is no way to proactively monitor the RAID controller for failed components (aside from sitting there 24/7/365 and waiting for a blue light to go amber) The DRAC cards do that, don't they? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 20:07, ke han wrote: On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? For the record, this is mfi(4). Have you done an install of FreeBSD 6.1 on a 1950/2950? Does the install kernel automatically recognize RAID arrays you have setup It finds the RAID controller fine. However, we're very concerned about the lack of a management CLI like ports/sysutils/megarc. It's the DRAC5 virtual USB keyboard that requires you sacrifice your moral integrity to obtain. A small price to pay, considering the client requires ActiveX and Java. Also I had some problems with if_bce.c rev1.7. Media state confusion. ~BAS with the PERC 5 bios? IOW, do I have to manually load some updated module outside of the default 6.1 install and config? thanks, ke han Yay! ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:07:06AM +0800, ke han wrote: Have you done an install of FreeBSD 6.1 on a 1950/2950? Yes, 1950. Does the install kernel automatically recognize RAID arrays you have setup with the PERC 5 bios? Yes. mfi0: Dell PERC 5/i mem 0xd80f-0xd80f,0xfc4e-0xfc4f irq 78 at device 14.0 on pci2 [ ... ] mfid0: MFI Logical Disk on mfi0 mfid0: 69375MB (142082047 sectors) RAID -- Riemer PalstraAmsterdam, The Netherlands [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.palstra.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? For the record, this is mfi(4). Yay! ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? For the record, this is mfi(4). Have you done an install of FreeBSD 6.1 on a 1950/2950? Does the install kernel automatically recognize RAID arrays you have setup with the PERC 5 bios? IOW, do I have to manually load some updated module outside of the default 6.1 install and config? thanks, ke han Yay! ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PERC 5/E SAS RAID in Dell PowerEdge 1950/2950
All: Does anyone have details about the new PERC 5/E SAS RAID controller Dell is (or will soon be) shipping in the 1950/2950? This replaces the long standing PERC4 (which was an OEM LSI / AMI MegaRAID U320) in the [1,2]850 series. Obviously this is an OEM chipset as well. I see it listed in mfi(4). It appears to be backported into RELENG_6. It appears to be an OEM of the HBA ASIC on the LSI Logic products: -MegaRAID SAS 8408E -MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP -MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP -MegaRAID SAS 8408E -MegaRAID SAS 8480E Do we know if ports/sysutils/megarc supports /dev/fmi? The Linux drivers for SUSE/RHEL seems to suggest that the new driver is simply an extension to the existing one, so it seems likely the management interface is the same. I see LSI lists a separate CLI: http://lsi.com/files/support/rsa/MR_SAS_1.0_1.00.07-Linux-MegaCLI.txt http://lsi.com/files/support/rsa/MR_SAS_1.0_1.00.07-Linux-MegaCLI.zip Which is different from where we get the MegaRC Beta: http://www.lsilogic.com/files/support/rsa/beta/drivers/ (no directory listing support) There were some posts in April that suggested Linux Binary emulation and linux compat sysfs or linprocfs would be needed instead of a native source code port. I think it's safe to say most people will be disinclined to enable Linux binary emulation on production servers. The controller is pretty much useless without a management CLI. Plus, the last I heard from Dell, there was no chance of integrating RAID management with any out-of-band management API (IPMI,BMC, SNMP, etc.) Also, anyone who may have worked with an 1950/2950 demo unit or non-OEM LSILogic card: has the BIOS menu usability and/or general intelligence of the card has improved? For example, with the PERC 4/e you could pull a component out of a RAID1, power on the system, and the RAID controller would scan the SCSI bus and report all volumes a healthy. TIA, ~BAS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
